In Pictures: Worst data breaches of 2014
We used 1 million records exposed as our floor in creating this list. Starting with a number that big says a lot about the state of data security.
Monash IVF Group says it has been subject to a “malicious cyber attack” targeting its email system.
Property valuation firm Landmark White has achieved ISO 27001 certification, the company announced this week.
An analysis drawing on three years’ worth of data gathered by Verizon has revealed that while many enterprises assert they have cyber security incident response plans in place, in many cases those IR plans are poorly constructed and rarely, if at all, updated or tested.
Australian intelligence determined China was responsible for a cyber-attack on its national parliament and three largest political parties before the general election in May, five people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
Newly released figures reveal that millions of Australians are believed to have been affected by data breaches in the three months to 30 June.
Data breaches made big news in 2015 as measured by a variety of criteria that range from the number of records compromised to the types of data stolen to the potential threat to specific groups such as children.
These "White Hat" security researchers are ethical hackers whose discoveries and inventions shake things up — as they try to stay one step ahead of their underground "Black Hat" cousins…
Upon discovering that someone has illegitimately accessed data on the network, IT managers initially believe (hope, really) that the threat came from outside. But as recent, headline-grabbing data breaches demonstrate, a lapse in internal security — whether accidental or malicious — is often what enabled the attack to succeed, in spite of robust external security. Download this whitepaper to see how to minimize the risk of the internal threat to the availability, confidentiality and integrity of AD.